Daily Planner vs Daily Routine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daily Planner
Organize your day with a comprehensive planner that includes task management, habit tracking, and event scheduling. Capture thoughts, ideas, and photos to create a personal diary. Stay on track with reminders and progress views.
- Add and reorder tasks with reminders
- Form healthy habits and track progress
- Import events and create notifications
- Journal thoughts, ideas, and photos
- Countdown timer for events and life
- Personalized daily summaries
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■ Tasks: add todos, set reminders, hold and drag to reorder your list ■ Habits: form cool healthy habits, view your weekly and monthly progress ■ Schedule: import events from Apple Calendar, create notifications, plan your day down to a minute ■ Day Summary: your personal diary that is always in your pocket ■ Thoughts and Ideas: never lose important ideas amidst multiple notes ■ Photos: add photos that made your day ■ Calendar: beautiful background images for every season ■ Countdown timer: see how much's left till the end of day, month, week, year and "life". This feature is optional and can be switched off in app settings ■ LifeViewer - Daily Planner will help you be more productive! ■ Your feedback matters, please email us at: acydapp@gmail.com Join our community on Twitter, Reddit, Telegram, Fb. Please find links in app settings at the bottom of the screen Terms of Use: https://www.termsfeed.com/terms-conditions/569862d2409e5ea352012edb31756c16
Daily Routine
Organize your life into time blocks to reduce stress and increase productivity. Allocate time for important activities like work, hobbies, and relaxation. Schedule sequences, receive optional notifications, and track your progress with linked timelines.
- Create time blocks for activities
- Schedule activity sequences
- Optional start-of-block notifications
- Track progress with ideal vs. actual timelines
- Flexible scheduling options
- Attach notes to activities
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Create a routine and stick to it with Daily Routine! Reduce stress, maintain balance and increase productivity by allocating the right amount of time to all your activities. Ever felt you're spending too much time on some part of your life, or too little? Daily Routine helps you spend time on all of the things that are important to you, such as: exercise, family, work, relaxation, hobbies, studying, mediation and personal projects. First, create a list of the activities you do regularly. Then, create blocks for your activities and add repetition where necessary. Speed things up by scheduling sequences of blocks at a time. As your timeline grows, Daily Routine can (optionally) notify you when each block starts. It's the easiest way to enjoy the productivity and peace-of-mind of having a routine! Entirely funded by subscriptions, Daily Routine focuses on being the best time management app for subscribers. It's free for the first 2 weeks, so give it a try. There's also a one-time in-app purchase option for those who prefer to avoid subscriptions. Beautiful and functional • Colourful and fun colour scheme • Unique 'bendy' UI shows time as list and diagram simultaneously • Designed to take advantage of modern iPhone screen sizes and shapes • Scroll the timeline days or even years into the future or past Powerful Notifications • Remind yourself what should be doing and when • Create reminders to spend time on every-day activities you might overlook • Enable or disable all notifications easily • Choose different notification sounds for each activity Flexible • Day-at-a-timers and scheduling-superstars are all welcome • Start simple, then get more adventurous when you're ready • Try time-blocking, day-theming or invent your own system Personal Support • Send feedback directly to the developer via in-app feedback • Got a suggestion? Tell us. Most new features come from user ideas • Found a bug? We want to hear about it (truly!) • All feedback emails answered by the developer directly, typically within 24 hours Powerful Features • Shorten, length, delay or bring forward an activity instance easily • Skip activities or entire sequences with ease • Linked "Ideal" and "Actual" timelines let you track your progress • Sequence versions let you change the future without affecting the past • Add Unplanned Blocks and Sequences to represent unexpected time • Attach notes to a one or all instances of an activity • Daily Routine can handle simultaneous activities (but can you?) Notes for Daily Routine Classic users • Daily Routine Classic users require a subscription to use Daily Routine, the two apps are financially separate • Daily Routine Classic and Daily Routine can be used side-by-side, however Daily Routine Classic will no longer be maintained. • Daily Routine Classic files can be imported however some features are no longer supported, such as: 'Quiet Time', overlapping timeslots in routines and gaps in routines • Several important Daily Routine Classic features are not yet supported in Daily Routine, such as: iPad UI, sync, PDF creation and calendar integration. These features are all on the development road-map but will not be ready for several months (perhaps longer) Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.dailyroutine.com/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Daily Planner at 4.4 against Daily Routine's 3.4. Daily Planner also leads on review sentiment (73% vs 48%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Daily Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.49 per month and Daily Routine sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Daily Planner holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 119 and 41 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Daily Planner's written reviews are positive against 48% of Daily Routine's.
Daily Planner ships an update every 3 weeks, Daily Routine every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Daily Planner | Daily Routine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (119 ratings) — better | 3.4 (41 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.4% of reviews — better | 48.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 119 — better | 41 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 126 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Victor Khodalov | Daily Routine Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Daily Planner
Daily Routine
Bugs and requests
Daily Planner
Reported bugs
7 issues- App frequently crashes
- App crashes when adding new event
- Subscription prompt appears when typing
- Cannot restore purchase after buying
- Date of birth setting is broken
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- All Day events take up entire schedule
- Cannot go back to main screen from Settings
Requested features
18 requests- Add subtask option
- Add widgets for home screen
- Track habits for past months
- Customize section headings
- Landscape view for iPad
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- Add recurring tasks
- Pomodoro widget
- Ability to rearrange tasks
- Mood tracker
- Timer countdown feature
- Health integrations (Apple Watch)
- In-app search
- Manage subscription within the app
- Choose app icons
- Google Calendar integration
- Delete subscription option
- Add more space for notes
- Add more events/tasks without subscription
Daily Routine
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Daily Planner
- LifeViewer Pro Monthly$7.491 Month
- LifeViewer Pro Annual7 Days trial$29.491 Year
- LifeViewer Pro Lifetime$41.99
Daily Routine
- Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Annual Subscription14 Days trial$19.991 Year
- One-Time Purchase$64.99
Questions
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